E. T. A. Hoffmann Quotes
The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.
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I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
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When I have to score a film, I watch the movie first and then start thinking about it. And from that moment on, it is as if I were pregnant. I then have to deliver the child, so from that moment on, I think always about the music - even when I go to the grocery store, I think about it.
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Music imitates the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
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Songs are more powerful than books.
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The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
